Characters Quotes

"We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

"I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

"The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way"

William James, Philosopher

"The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments"

Dr. Seuss, Writer

"When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play"

Monica Bellucci, Actress

"I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"I've always had difficulties with female characters"

John Le Carre, Author

"I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

"I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'"

Demetri Martin, Comedian

"I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am"

Christian Bale, Actor

"We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he came to be the person that he was and how he comes to be this man that jumps around in the Bat suit"

Christian Bale, Actor

"Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before"

Matt Groening, Cartoonist

"I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters"

Gilbert Hernandez, Artist

"I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures"

Regina Spektor, Musician

"If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors"

Jason Statham, Actor

"It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more"

Matt Groening, Cartoonist

"I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies"

Uwe Boll, Director

"In the prequel we're going to tell about the characters before Left Behind, and the book would end with the rapture instead of start with the rapture like the first one did"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

"I was always inventing characters and making up stories"

Suzanne Vega, Musician

"I always find stuff in my characters to relate to"

Gerard Butler, Actor

"I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human"

Clive Owen, Actor

"Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point"

Michael Zaslow, Actor

"From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters"

Nadine Gordimer, Novelist

"Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision"

Madeleine Stowe, Actress

"I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films"

Neil LaBute, Director

"There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward"

Jeremy Northam, Actor

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